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Iqbal Bano

Iqbal Bano was born in 1935 in Delhi. She was brought up and raised in Delhi. Iqbal was a very talented girl musically. She possessed a sweet and appealing voice. Even from a young age, Bano developed a love for music from her heart. It was a crucial situation of her life when her friend's father came forward as a votary. He told her father "My daughters do sing reasonably well, but Iqbal is blessed in singing. She will become a big name if you begin her training." Because of persuasion from others and her attachment to music, he allowed her to be a student in music. When the dispute of partition cause a condemnable stir everywhere in India in 1947, she disliked the riot and the carnage of Delhi in the core of her heart. In Dehli, she learnt from Ustad Chaand Khan of the Delhi Gharana, an expert in all kinds of pure classical and light classical forms of vocal music. He instructed her in pure classical music and light classical music within the framework of classical forms of thumri and dadra. She was duly initiated Gaandaabandh shagird of her Ustad. He forwarded her to All India Radio, Delhi and made her sing there. In 1952, a zamindaar from Pakistan married seventeen year old Iqbal Bano, on promise that he would never stop her music, but try to promote her. Her fulfilled his promise until he breathed his last in 1980 after the couple had been married for 28 years (1952 till 1980). After her marriage, she migrated to Garden Town, Lahore and she began learning from Ustad Ashiq Ali Khan of the Patiala Gharana and Ustad Abdul Karim Khan of the Kirana Gharana. It was observed that her temperant was apt to genres like thumri, dadra and ghazal.

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